Flat is saved by smoke alarm (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Flat is saved by smoke alarm
8:00am Friday 1st March 2013 in News
By Rhys Thomas, T&A Reporter
A pensioner went out and left a pan on the hob, causing a fire at her flat.
Fire crews had to force entry to the first-floor property on Spring Head Road, Thornton, at about 2.30pm yesterday.
Ronnie Goldwater, watch commander at Fairweather Green fire station, said: “The lady went out with her daughter. She had got distracted somehow and left the pan on the stove.
“Fortunately the smoke alarm picked it up or it could have been a lot worse.”
Mr Goldwater said the flat was smoke-logged.
